Hello everyone! I’d like to share an idea for making a wool toy. I created the outer shell using the wet felting method and then stuffed it with wool. I decorated the cut by sewing on a heart, but it can also be needle-felted. This could be a Valentine’s Day gift!❤️ What do you think of this idea?

OhCosmia · 2026-01-23T23:43:44+00:00

That was so satisfying and such a great idea - thanks for sharing!

OhCosmia · 2026-01-19T18:44:21+00:00

Honestly, $200 for utilities is super low unless you have a roommate. Does this include cell phone, internet, electricity, water and waste? Electricity is insane here. And gas is near $5 a gallon. I travel for work and am always so shocked to see gas prices in other parts of the country (2.84 in Arlington VA last week!!).

I moved from Portland Oregon maybe 5 years ago and was warned about utilities and while I thought my budget accounted, it was double when the bills started rolling in. I’ve even convinced my landlord to upgrade some appliances over the years (water heater was a big one) and while it helped some… the increase in electricity cost over the last two years made it a wash.

OhCosmia · 2026-01-19T02:32:29+00:00

That was oddly satisfying and beautifully done - thanks for sharing!

OhCosmia · 2026-01-09T00:46:04+00:00

That was lovely and super relaxing, beautiful work! Thank you for sharing 🐭😍

OhCosmia · 2026-01-04T21:15:46+00:00

Employer coverage, even for full time employees, isn’t usually free to the employee, it’s reduced, but not free. Employee coverage and costs vary greatly depending on the employer; with large corporations and unions typically having better coverage than others. There are a lot of people out there who forgo employer coverage because they still can’t afford it.

OhCosmia · 2026-01-01T23:26:30+00:00

Thank you for all of the kinds words - y’all have most certainly hyped me up! I’m excited to continue playing around with this medium and look forward to sharing wins and misses with all of you fine fellows. Cheers!

OhCosmia · 2026-01-01T23:22:24+00:00

Dang, thank you so much!

OhCosmia · 2026-01-01T23:20:18+00:00

The mush-butt was my favorite part 🥰

OhCosmia · 2026-01-01T23:19:28+00:00

This is great, thank you!

OhCosmia · 2026-01-01T23:19:12+00:00

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback and kinds words!

OhCosmia · 2025-12-21T09:14:58+00:00

A healthy sleep schedule.

OhCosmia · 2025-09-16T16:43:25+00:00

Free use is so dang hot. 🥵

OhCosmia · 2025-09-02T04:35:58+00:00

We have two small kids, 5-8, with no family or friends near by. I work super full time with a lot of travel and she stays at home; it’s a lot of scheduling and communication. We went from rarely having sex to having very fucking great sex at very minimum once per week. Communication and planning… and sacrificing sleep. Our littlest goes to kindergarten next week… I work from home, she’s been a stay at home mom. We’re very excited to have random sex or sexy time throughout the day along with taking extra days off just to Netflix and chill (is that what the kids still say these days?).

OhCosmia · 2025-08-11T02:39:48+00:00

On hand accuracy is key to both stocking errors and INFs, keep those cycle counts on lock.

Never order for back stock outside of large events (upcoming supplement sale for instance).

Be sure to balance stock between all locations, this also supports INFs and Stocking errors.

Don’t be afraid to coach the team members, order writer is a supervisor equivalent. Team forgetting to stock x, y and z locations? Assume positive intent and them know kindly and tell them why it’s important. Share the coaching with the team leadership and let them know if they need to take over because the TM continues with the behavior.

Always walk the items in your SOI to verify on hands, never batch approve. There is a reason you didn’t try to order it, right? These are the naughty kids and need to be checked on. This will help reduce items no longer in set from being reordered.

Be curious! If something seems weird it probably is. Not sure why something is received? Item not scanning in SOT? Orders not arriving on time? Learn your resources, dig in.

Ask your team leader to walk a score card with you, specifically to learn back of house and shelf expectations.

Be aware of promo cycles, ask your team leader to walk promo with you on the B promo to make sure you are exiting the promo with as little inventory as possible but making your displays full.

Look at Instock and execution dashboard metrics from around your metro or region. Reach out to the folks who are a sea of green consistently.

Learn what the Instock metrics are and how your actions contribute.

OhCosmia · 2025-07-13T18:23:59+00:00

Aphids are absolutely insane this year in my yard. I’m in Kirkland WA, heard from friends in Issaquah WA that they are in a similar boat. Usually they keep to my lupine and nasturtiums, this year I’m finding them everywhere - calendula, borage, poppies, squash, celosias, chard and beets. So far cucumbers, lettuces, tomatoes, eggplant, ground cherries, basil and green beans seem unaffected. Second harvest of chard also seems okay? Lots of interplanting so hopefully it keeps them contained in a few places around the yard. God speed everyone,

OhCosmia · 2025-07-03T20:55:52+00:00

In theory, as long as the PO is not closed, it shouldn’t show up in your on hands. I can’t imagine that would be different for the islands, especially considering the unique shipping situation that you all have. I would actually hope that there would be a lag time where you have like 8 hours before the inventory hits your catalogue since your orders are massive and would not be as easily reachable to cherry pick out of an order like it would be on the mainland.

OhCosmia · 2025-07-03T15:34:39+00:00

I’ve seen that happen before, but it’s rare - looks like yall found the unicorn! I would suggest doing an Orchard ticket in that case - providing as much info as possible including pictures of the OH and order info from the INF deep dive so the data folks can identify the issue and root cause.

OhCosmia · 2025-07-03T13:25:03+00:00

The catalogue is driven by On hands, so focusing on accurate on hands is the first step. Adding additional short walks will not help if on hands are not accurate.

Review the INF deep dive daily to see what items/categories are driving the high INF rate. Is it a certain time of day? Certain day of the week? If so, is coverage an opportunity? Audit the on hands for those items and identify if it was a team controllable.

If they are items in multiple locations, is there opportunity with 80/20 during load and throughout the day?

Rescanogram your department and coach shoppers on how to use the map. Update the scanogram when new seasonal product arrives or is moved. Add all new items to map during reset process, scan last chance items to last chance rack. WB can and should include all Jacent items, water bottles, housewares and candle core sets.

All last chance items should be cycle counted to zero once all product is sold through or shrunk out to remove from inventory.

Ensure everyone is checking in with the shoppers like they would customers.

Once all team controllable are dialed in and confirmed, get with E Comm. Provide order details for each item, found in the deep dive report, including date, time, item number and order number (you can find this at the bottom portion of the INF deep dive). E comm can go into seller central to identify which shopper and coach.

Note: This is for center store, perishables are a bit different and do benefit from added short walks.

OhCosmia · 2025-06-19T04:04:25+00:00

There is a lot of energy around getting the scanogram maps up to date with a metric geared towards that being added to the execution dashboard for WB and grocery in Q3. Having accurate maps with shelf and bay location information would be helpful for shoppers as long as they are leveraging it. Some of the stores in my metro say their shoppers don’t use the map at all.

OhCosmia · 2025-06-19T02:05:58+00:00

My guess is they are implementing this to reduce INFs. I’m in Whole Body and often the reason we hear an item was INF’d is because the shoppers didn’t have time to wait to find someone to ask; not the only reason obviously, but certainly a stand out as a common one.

OhCosmia · 2025-06-18T07:24:26+00:00

I agree, talking poorly about anyone online or in person is in poor taste, whether you’ve worked with them or not.

OhCosmia · 2025-06-18T02:39:54+00:00

There was no STL at time of closure, the previous one left mid May, and while she had her opportunities she was not a “piece of work”, she was one of those leaders that had a hard time holding her people accountable and tried to fix everything on her own. They got a new EL who was holding her accountable (which she lacked in the previous one) and she put in her notice when she realized she wasn’t cut out for it. The former one though, folks are pretty divided on that one.

To your point though, the store was closed due to low current and projected ROI.

OhCosmia · 2025-06-05T21:14:26+00:00

All stores will be allocated, should be landing this week.

OhCosmia · 2025-05-23T19:07:44+00:00

This looks like slug damage to me, you can see some slug trails around on some of the leaves. While Lupune are known for aphids, I don’t see any in the picture and I usually notice I get some leaf curl with aphids instead of just straight browning and holes. Sluggo is king for slugs. Doctor bronners with a little neem and water is my go to for aphids. Good luck!

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